Suspender-buckle.



' A. A. ABBAMS.

SUSPENDER BUCKLE.

No. 679,200. Patented July 23, 190i.

(Application filed Mar. 13, 1901.)

(No Model.)

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ALBERT A. ABRAMS, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

SUSPENDER-BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 679,200, dated July 23,1901.

Application filed March 13, 1901. Serial No. 51,015. (No model.)

T0 all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALBERT A. ABRAMS, a citizen of the United States,residing at St. Louis, State of Missouri, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Suspender-Buckles, of which the following is afull, clear, and exact description, reference being had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part hereof.

My invention has relation to improvements in suspender-buckles; and itconsists in the novel arrangement and combination of parts more fullyset forth in the specification and pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of a suspender equippedwith my buckle. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on line 2 2 of Fig. 4,taken outside the locking-pieces carried by the Web-securing arms, theweb being shown in edge view. Fig. 3 is a perspective of the preferredform of buckle, the locking-lever being removed. Fig. a is a rear viewof the suspender-web at a point opposite the buckle. Fig. 5 is an endView of the buckle with the locking-lever removed; and Fig. 6 is aperspective of a modified form, the locking-lever being removed.

The present invention'is an improvernent on the construction of buckleshown and described in my pending application, Serial No. 28,526, filedAugust 30, 1900, and like it has for its objects to construct aSuspender-buckle which can be so mounted on the brace portion or web ofthe suspender as to be virtually concealed from View and be practicallyout of contact with the shirt of the wearer, thereby minimizing theliability to corrosion from contact with perspiration and staining ofthe garment in consequence, to construct a buckle which will permit ofready adjustment, one which is simple and durable, and one susceptibleof a variety of modifications. In addition to these the present deviceinsures completely against any possible contact between the fixed end ofthe brace by which the buckle is carried and the body portion of thebrace, the body or main plate of the buckle keeping these two portionseffectively separated from one another. In the present device, too, the

fixed end of the brace above referred to is in no wise affected by thelocking-lever, whatever may be the position of the latter. In detail theinvention may be described as fol lows:

Referring to the drawings, B represents a Suspender brace or web havinga terminal loop B, by which the tabs or frogs F are directly supported,a construction which is well known and for which no claim is hereinmade.

The buckle is composed of a body-plate 1, formed of a single piece ofmetal, the plate having cut or stamped therefrom the rear Web-supportingarms 2 2, removed from the rear surface of the plate a distancedetermined by the depth and angular disposition of the terminal offsets8 3, by which they are directly connected to the opposite ends of saidplate. 7 The offsets 3 necessitate the separation of the adjacent endsof the arms, the gap being spanned by a sleeve or lookingpiece 4, bywhich rigidity and continuity for each pair of arms are insured. In thepreferred form of my device the arms 2 2 are cut slightly at a pointwithin the opposite lower and upper edges of the plate, (or originalblank,) thereby leaving the upper and lower spanning pieces or braces 77. At each end of the plate and formed integrally therewith are theoutwardly deflected Web guiding flanges 5 5, from which extend lugs orcars 5 5, between which is pivotally mounted the toothed locking-lever6, the latter being of the ordinary and prevailing form of construction.When the lever is swung outwardly, as shown by dotted position in Fig.2, the body of the brace is free to pass between the serrated edgethereof and the adjacent face of the plate 1, permitting the latter tobe readily adjusted along said web. To look the plate in position,thelever is swung downward, so as to bring the toothed edge thereoffirmly against the web and against the plate, between which and thelever the web is gripped. (See Fig. 2.)

In securing the buckle to the end of the brace B said end is passedbehind the plate and the arms 2 2, then brought or inserted between saidarms and the rear surface of the plate 1, the free end of the web andthe inner lap of the loop B being then jointly sewed, as seen in Figs. 2and 4:. It is of course understood that the brace or web is first passedthrough the space between the locking-lever and the front of the plate 1before its end is secured in the manner indicated.

. In the modification illustrated in Fig. 6 the upper and lower bracesor spanning pieces 7 7 are omitted, the arms 2 2 forming the upper andlower portions of the plate. The arms 2 2 or 2 2 being disposed on eachside of the center of the plate insure a connection for the plate (withthe web) on each side of the center thereof and a consequent symmetricaldistribution of the strains to which it may be subjected. Theconsequence is the plate is always held in a plane parallel to the planeof the web and the device is always a source of comfort to the wearer.

I do not of course limit myself to any particular form of lockin g-levernor to any particular design of plate, nor do I wish to limit myself tothe specific means here detailed for securing the rear lap of the loop Bto the arms 2 2, the primary objects of my invention be ing to mount thefixed end of the web wholly in the rear of the plate or body of thebuckle, so as to insure against its coming in contact with thewebproper, to fully conceal the plate from View and prevent its contactwith the shirt of the wearer, and to apply the buckle to any garmentwhere a buckle is brought into service, its application not beinglimited necessarily to suspenders.

The arms 2 2, with their locking piece or sleeve 4, form a continuousbar for the suspension of the web, and whilein the present case they arestamped integrally with the original blank it is apparent that completebars made of a single piece of metal could be soldered or otherwisesecured to the body or plate 1.

Having described my invention, what I claim is 1. A Suspender-bucklecomprising a body portion or plate, parallel arms disposed in the rearthereof on each side of the center line of the plate, terminal offsetsseparating the arms a suitable distance from the plate, means forcoupling the adjacent free ends of said arms and thereby making the samecontinuous between the oifsets, the free end of the suspender-bracebeing connected directly to said arms, and disconnected from the bodyportion or plate proper, and a locking-lever pivoted in front of theplate, substantially as set forth.

2. A Suspender-buckle comprising a body portion or plate, parallel armsdisposed in the rear thereof on each side of the center line of theplate, terminal offsets separating the arms a suitable distance from theplate, lockingpieces coupling the adjacent ends of said arms and therebymaking the same continuous between the oifsets, the free end of thesuspender-brace being connected directly to said arms, and disconnectedfrom the plate, and a locking-lever pivoted in front of the plate,substantially as set forth.

3. A Suspender-buckle comprising a body or plate, parallel arms arrangedin pairs in the rear of the plate, offsets separating the arms from theplate, locking-pieces connecting the adjacent separated ends of thearms, braces or spanning pieces located at the upper and lower edges ofthe plate, outwardlydeflected Web-guiding flanges formed at each end ofthe plate between the ends of the braces, ears projecting beyond theflanges, and a locking-lever pivoted between said ears, the free end ofthe Suspender-brace being connected directly to said arms, butdisconnected from the body portion or plate, substantially as set forth.

4. A Suspender-buckle comprising a body portion or plate, parallel barsdisposed in the rear thereof on each side of the center line of theplate, terminal offsets separating the bars a suitable distance from theplate and connecting the same to the opposite ends of the plate, thefree end of the Suspender-brace being connected directly to said bars,and (lisconnected from the body portion or plate proper, and alocking-lever pivoted in front of the plate, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ALBERT A. ABRAMS.

Witnesses:

EMIL STAREK, G. L. BELFRY.

